Late Night Wedding

missy24 Posted: Mar 25, 2003 03:35 PM

Late Night Wedding

Anyone is having a late night wedding or has been to one? Mine is from 8:30 - 1:30AM. I wonder how everyone will weather. Any experiences?

bird Posted: Mar 25, 2003 03:42 PM

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I am having my wedding at the same time!!! I think it's a great time since there will be a lot of young people at the wedding and my theme is celestial...

louise3rd Posted: Mar 25, 2003 03:44 PM

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I was at a wedding that ended at 1am.The young people stayed,the old people left before 12am.Honestly i dont think i would have one that late ,but if you have alot of younger people i see no problem with it.Hope i could help

Nanjoe Posted: Mar 25, 2003 03:45 PM

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Mine is 8-1am....I think it will be fine!! I think some of the older folks may leave early, but the younger ones will definitely stay!!!

allure Posted: Mar 25, 2003 03:47 PM

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I see nothing wrong with late weddings

jar823 Posted: Mar 25, 2003 03:51 PM

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My ceremony is at 6:30. Cocktail Hour starts at 7. Reception ends at 12.
I think late weddings are fine. Usually the older people don't tend to stay late anyways. That leaves more dance floor space for the young people to party. I am sure everything will be fine!

missy24 Posted: Mar 25, 2003 04:10 PM

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I am so glad to hear that there are some late weddings!

Majority of my family is older but my FH has 60 friends. I hope that the party will still be alive.

karenJ Posted: Mar 25, 2003 04:19 PM

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I think a late wedding is fine. Mine is from 6.30 to 12.30 and I do expect people to leave earlier, but that's ok since I know most of my family and close friends will stay to the very end.

Karen

Chloegirl Posted: Mar 25, 2003 05:26 PM

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Mine isn't starting until 7:30 and will end about 1:30. It's hard having a Sat. night wedding in the spring if you are jewish. Sundown isn't until 8pm so you are not supposed to start the ceremony until I think 60 minutes after that. We have a reformed rabbi so he will marry us before sundown luckily...or we would be partying until 3 in the morning and I am not sure how the older folk will hold up.

Marcela1654 Posted: Mar 25, 2003 05:31 PM

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Our reception will end at 12. I feel the same way Karen feels, some may leave early, but the my closest friends and family won't.

LisaT Posted: Mar 25, 2003 05:45 PM

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just keep in mind, as guests start leaving your time becomes occupied with goodbyes. If they're leaving earlier, be prepared to lose some dancing time while you say your goodbyes. We were at our reception an hour after it ended saying goodbye to everyone - but I'm glad that wasn't an hour of dancing time lost.

Our reception ended at midnight on a Saturday. Most people stayed until the end, but some pulled us aside earlier to say goodbye / give the card, etc.

WeezieNY Posted: Mar 25, 2003 05:50 PM

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IT SOUNDS LIKE A GREAT TIME. AS LONG AS YOU HAVE FRIENDS THEY WILL PARTY THE NIGHT AWAY.

kmcwed Posted: Mar 25, 2003 06:32 PM

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Our ceremony is at 6:30, cocktail hour from 7-8 and reception from 8-12. And its a SUNDAY night!!

We know some people are going to leave early. We sent Save the Dates out eight months before the wedding to give everyone plenty of notice that it's a Sunday. So our guests have had lots of time to make arrangements regarding work, etc. if they want to stay late.

Sunday night is what we could afford, and what we could guarantee in terms of head count (lower minimum on Sunday). So that's what we went with.

KarenM